{"id":502,"date":"2019-03-13T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics\/?p=502"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:02:29","slug":"white-house-daca-benefits-illegal-immigrants-en-masse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/white-house-daca-benefits-illegal-immigrants-en-masse\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: DACA benefits &#8216;illegal immigrants en masse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week\u2019s readings discuss the issues surrounding immigrant illegality status and the effects of political discretion on the immigration option of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Gonzales (2018) studies the experiences of DACA beneficiaries while transitioning from being undocumented to gaining DACA. When examining the trajectories of DACA beneficiaries, Gonzales found differences in the experiences of those who received DACA at different stages in the transition to adulthood. While young undocumented immigrants who obtained DACA status experienced an \u201cimmediate and positive\u201d effect and followed an educational trajectory, older undocumented people also experienced a positive trajectory in \u201creviving abandoned aims\u201d from blocked transitions before DACA was in place (Gonzales, 2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an article from 2018, the White House criticized DACA for \u201cbenefitting illegal immigrants en masse\u201d following an earlier decision from the Supreme Court to dismiss the Trump administration\u2019s effort to scale back on DACA. White House press secretary Raj Shah called the program \u201cunlawful\u201d and argued for the case to be heard by the judicial body. With DACA being heavily debated in Congress, this sparks questions regarding the underlying motives of those arguing against DACA. Is the argument against DACA focused on the constitutionality of the program itself, or opposition towards the benefits that it\u2019s helping illegal immigrants to receive? In addition, how can DACA beneficiaries gain a better understanding of the timeline\/possibility of DACA\u2019s termination given Trump\u2019s efforts to strike it down?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/375603-wh-response-to-scotus-clearly-illegal-daca-program-benefits-illegal<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s readings discuss the issues surrounding immigrant illegality status and the effects of political discretion on the immigration option of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Gonzales (2018) studies the experiences of DACA beneficiaries while transitioning from being undocumented to gaining DACA. When examining the trajectories of DACA beneficiaries, Gonzales found differences in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news-all","category-news-5","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}